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Thoughts on Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time by Rory Vaden

In his book, Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time, Rory Vaden talks about how to procrastinate on purpose, but in this book review, I would like to focus on the “multiply your time” part.

Let me just touch a little bit about procrastination though. The procrastination talked about in the book isn’t putting off something you should be doing because you don’t want to. Instead, Rory Vaden talks about having the patience to wait until the optimal time to act.

It allows you to adapt to unpredictable changes, whether that’s a change in the weather, the stock market or a customer’s requirements. In our fast-paced modern world, things tend to change at breakneck speed. So don’t be scared of a little procrastination, and have the patience to wait and see.

Now, on to my favorite part, multiplying time. How do you multiply time? There’s only 24 hours in a day. Multiply it by 2 and you get 48 hours in a day. Woah! He must be a magician to do that! Well, not quite.

It’s more like creating more time by eliminating tasks you don’t necessarily have to do, delegating tasks to other people, prioritizing things, and eliminating distractions so that you can focus on the task at hand and therefore finish it faster. It’s about being productive without being too busy.

“The most successful people never complain about being busy.”

Quit complaining about how much you have to do. Instead of worrying about your to-do list and the hundreds of things that you have to do, get on with it one task at a time.

Oh the satisfaction of crossing out a task in your to-do list after completing it. We tend to add little tasks underestimating its “tinyness” just so we can feel more productive. But in reality, those “tiny” tasks will add up and end up taking much of your time.

Eliminate not add. Less is more. Make more time by going through your tasks with an elimination mindset. Cross out your tasks with the highest priority first. Don’t add tasks unless they’re important not because they feel important. There’s a difference.

Delegate tasks. Don’t try to do everything by yourself. Use another pair of hands because as the saying goes, “Many hands make work light.”

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